"There were no bruises. We asked him if he wanted medical attention, not once but a couple of times. He just said, 'No I am fine. I just want to go home,'" Page owner Ted Mountzuris said.

"He's a very fun loving kid -- never confrontational, full smiles, full of life. He will be truly missed," said the victim's roommate, Davis Drolet.

O'Neill was arrested by state police Tuesday night in Rochester. Portsmouth police said O'Neill had promised to turn himself in, but after he failed to keep that promise, police found him at a relative's home.

In Portsmouth Circuit Court on Wednesday, prosecutor David Colby said a more serious charge may be coming.

"The autopsy results are still pending in many regards," Colby said. "This may well be upgraded to a homicide."

The prosecutor said that O'Neill bragged to friends about how he attacked Krantz. Colby said the attack was premeditated because O'Neill waited until the bar was closing.

"He waited until that time to initiate this assault because he knew he was going to be thrown out," Colby said. "He didn't want this to wreck his evening."

Colby said O'Neill had a criminal history that includes convictions for criminal threatening and resisting arrest, and was out on bail at the time of his arrest. He said O'Neill also failed to show last week for a trial involving another fight that happened in January just up the street from The Page.

The prosecutor asked that bail set at $250,000, which the judge granted.

O'Neill is due back in court April 17 for a probable cause hearing.

O'Neill's father was in court and said his sympathies go out the Krantz family. He said the public has only heard one side of the story.